Chapter 162: with translation of chapter title

Two pieces of light, fluttering talisman paper fell to the ground, and then suddenly expanded, turning into two objects like flying carpets. Looking at these two flying carpets, Ying Nüxia and Feiyanü got on without a word, but just as Ying Nüxia steadied herself, she discovered someone behind her.

「Um, miss, I'm counting on you to look after me—I'm afraid of heights. 」 Zhou Shuo sat on the talisman paper, smiling at the little girl whose forehead almost bulged with a 'well' character.

「Hold on. 」 Ying Nüxia gritted her teeth and spat out three words, pinched a hand seal, and the talisman paper beneath her instantly turned into a yellow light that wrapped both of them, shooting up into the sky like a pearl.

「Wow, so awesome, so awesome. 」 Zhou Shuo looked at the clouds drifting by all around and couldn't help shouting '666666'; it really is impressive. The flying talismans of Fangcun Mountain have an effect comparable to the Divine Blood God Blanket of the Jingyuan Divine Temple, but the problem is that refining each Divine Blood God Blanket requires countless human and strange beast hairs, not to mention at least a hundred years, whereas the disciples of Fangcun Mountain can whip them up casually—not only for themselves but also to give to others.

「Quiet down. 」 Ying Nüxia looked at the guy who had suddenly stood up behind her, clapping and shouting praise nonstop, and she raised her eyebrows slightly; I just knew your fear of heights was fake!

「……」 Zhou Shuo looked at the girl with twitching heroic brows, instantly sat back on the flying talisman, putting on an expression that said 'I'm afraid of heights.'

「Hmph! 」 Ying Nüxia looked at the guy putting on a scared face with exaggerated acting, let out a cold snort, glanced sideways at the companion chasing after them on a flying talisman from behind, and the hand seal she was holding was ready to change, to dispel the flying talisman beneath her, but before she could finish the motion, she felt her lower leg tighten.

「What are you doing? 」 Ying Nüxia looked at the guy who had directly grabbed her calf from behind, and her face instantly flushed red.

「It's so high, I'm so scared, lower it a bit—at this height, if I fall I'll die. 」 Zhou Shuo gave it 200 percent effort, well, maybe a bit over the top, but on the surface there's nothing wrong with it.

「Let go of me! 」 Ying Nüxia felt her legs being tightly held, plus some shameless expression and words from someone, and her face flushed red involuntarily.

「I'll really die! 」 Zhou Shuo shouted desperately.

「I won't throw you down—just let go first. 」 Ying Nüxia's face was flushed red.

「Ah, so you were planning to throw me down. 」 Zhou Shuo, holding the girl's skirt outside, with her clean calf wrapped in iron leg guards, lifted a face of disbelief, and his astonished expression made Ying Nüxia both annoyed and shy.

「I—I said, are you done pretending? 」 Ying Nüxia looked at Zhou Shuo, who was holding her calf and making an incredulous expression, and she gritted her teeth; ordinary people couldn't climb this Flower-Fruit Mountain, and facing the peril of tiger-devouring, his expression remained calm and composed.

「Heroine! I have elderly parents to support above, please don't do this—if you do, when I fall I might not even find my bones. 」 Zhou Shuo pretended not to understand and burst into loud wailing, indicating he was scared and begging her not to throw him down.

「If you keep this up, I'll turn against you. 」 Ying Nüxia looked at the guy who had no intention of stopping, and her face flushed with anger, especially when she saw Feiyanü behind them catching up on her flying talisman.

「I'm really, really pitiful, a salted fish—please don't throw me down; at this height, if I fall there won't even be a corpse left. 」 Zhou Shuo indicated he was truly afraid, and the rest he didn't understand.

「I've already said it—I won't throw you down; first let go of me, if you don't let go, I…. 」 Ying Nüxia, face flushed, suddenly drew the short sword at her waist.

「I let go, I let go, I let go. 」 Zhou Shuo, seeing the girl draw her sword, instantly released his grip, simultaneously shifting his hands and feet to retreat his whole body as far away from that heroic, strong-willed girl as possible, for she might really dare to give him a stab.

「I'll tell you……」 Ying Nüxia looked at the guy who yields to force but not to softness, and she felt a surge of hatred, holding her short sword and advancing to threaten him with a couple of words, but she hadn't finished speaking.

「Don't come over, I've already let go, ah—! 」 Zhou Shuo, seeing Ying Nüxia approach with her short sword, instinctively moved his hands and feet, but he didn't expect the void beneath him; a force quickly grabbed him, and a fierce wind surged from all sides, choking back his scream.

「……」 Ying Nüxia looked at the guy being yanked out of the flying talisman by gravity, his scream vanishing instantly, she gripped her twin short swords and opened her mouth wide: 'Did I do this? This really wasn't my doing; I didn't mean for this.'

「Damn, save me! 」 Zhou Shuo watched the flying talisman's spiritual light recede farther and farther away, wanting to shout a warning to the girl not just stare, but the fierce wind pressure prevented him from speaking, and he suddenly realized he truly couldn't fly.

His primordial spirit entrusted to the void, his cultivation and body fused as one, Zhou Shuo could consider himself immortal and capable of many martial arts and techniques, but none of the arts he possessed allowed flight; previously he flew by riding escape light, which requires a nascent soul, and his nascent soul is gone.

「Oh no, I'm going to die once. 」 Zhou Shuo looked at the mountains below continually drawing nearer and enlarging, his eyes widening; although falling this way would still allow resurrection, the sensation of being smashed to pieces he would still have to endure.

「Huh, that's not right. 」 Zhou Shuo looked at his eyes continually approaching the enlarging mountains, and he narrowed his gaze; between the mountains there was a high peak, atop which a waterfall flew and sprayed into the cliff, turning into a white dragon that poured into the sea.

「There's hope. 」 Zhou Shuo saw the white dragon entering the sea beneath that peak, instantly moved his limbs, stretched out his arms and legs and body as much as possible, using air resistance to slow his fall, while controlling his center of gravity to make him descend diagonally, aiming to land in that mountain white dragon; if he landed in that stream, with good luck he'd be saved, with bad luck he'd be unlucky.

「Elder Sister Ying Nüxia, hurry and save someone! 」 Feiyanü looked at the figure plunging straight from the sky into the clouds and couldn't help letting out a scream; she is the inheritor of the Maiden's Village, and although her school also has martial arts and movement techniques, it lacks flight ability—she can fly only by borrowing the flying talisman she received from Ying Nüxia.

Along with Feiyanü's scream, Ying Nüxia also came to her senses; the flying talisman beneath her instantly turned into a spiritual light and shot downward in pursuit, but once she passed through the white clouds, what she could see was only a toad-like figure in the sky drawing in its arms and hugging its legs, then dropping straight into the stream between the cliffs and disappearing.

「He really can't fly. 」 Ying Nüxia looked at the figure falling into the stream, and her face instantly turned deathly pale; that guy truly can't fly, falling from that height he's surely dead—what should I do? It was unintentional on my part.

「Elder Sister Ying Nüxia……」 Feiyanü barely managed to press down the flying talisman's spiritual light, looking at Ying Nüxia standing in the sky or—her face twitched slightly, but she didn't speak, and then she saw Ying Nüxia's form turn into a meteor and plummet into the stream between the cliffs.

「Elder Sister Ying Nüxia. 」 Feiyanü watched the figure rushing into the mountain stream, her eyes widening, and she hurriedly pressed down the talisman, but she couldn't keep up with Ying Nüxia at all; she could only watch Ying Nüxia plop into the water, and when she tried to stop her own flying talisman beneath her, her true qi failed to circulate, watching the water draw ever closer, she couldn't help but scream and shut her eyes.